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VP of Legislation - Colorado Legislation April 2021 Update
June 2, 2021
Colorado’s 2021 Legislative Session started on a fast pace with several privacy
related bills introduced early in the session. The PPIAC legislative committee was
Robin Brown teaches closely monitoring two bills which could have had adverse impacts on our
INVESTIGATOR profession.
SAFETY HB21-1111 was pulled by the bill sponsor due to a projected $2.8B appropriations
to various state departments. This bill would have required a governmental entity
that maintains, owns, or licenses computerized data that includes certain personal
He will discuss personal and information about any Colorado residents, or a governmental entity that uses a
employee safety in these and third-party service provider to maintain computerized data that includes certain
other arenas: personal information, to give notice to those Colorado residents every 90 days.
SB21-15 would have prohibited the department of revenue from making bulk
• Process Service electronic transfers of information to vendors for resell (i.e., DMV info). This bill
• Driving a vehicle was postponed indefinitely after a 2-3 vote in the Senate State, Veterans, and
Military Affairs Committee.
• Interviewing
• Stationary & Moving There is a new bill which we are monitoring. It is SB21-190 which creates a privacy
Surveillance rights data bill for Colorado residents. This bill affects entities that process more
• The Use of Firearms & than 100,000 consumers per calendar year and is similar to the consumer privacy
act in place in California, as well as one in Virginia which was recently passed into
Less-Than-Lethal devices law. Several other states are considering similar bills.
• Protection of Information
• Protection of Equipment HB21-1120 which seeks to license security guards was introduced but has not been
• Protection of Reputation read in its first committee.
• The Use of Informants Two bills seek to protect the personal information of specific occupations. HB21-
1015 deals specifically with the personal information of criminal justice personnel.
Join our monthly This bill is currently in the Senate Judiciary committee, but an amendment to the
bill failed to pass in the committee. HB21-1107 deals with the personal
trainings via Zoom. information of public health workers. It has been referred to the Senate
Committee of the Whole, so it will likely pass through the legislature.
In other state news, Texas was initially able to lobby to retain DMV records access
Board meeting 4:30- for licensed private investigators, but a bill may be in the works to limit or
5:30 p.m. (voting eliminate DMV records access. This is concerning to the profession as a whole, as
we do not want a precedence to be set.
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Robert Orozco - VP of Legislation
